Mathematics for the interested outsider

New Blaths

Here are a couple new blaths (I’m going to popularize that term if it kills me) to hit the intarwobs. First off is the latest Fields-Medalist-cum-blatherer, Timothy Gowers.

More interesting to me is Rigorous Trivialities, which is being sporadically written by a new graduate student at UPenn. I wonder if Isabel put him up to it. Either way, this means we’re only one seminar invitation from having three Ivy-league-educated math bloggers in one room (hint, hint).

I was actually inspired by Greg from the Everything Seminar when I met him over the summer. And strictly speaking, there’s three of us running Rigorous Trivialities, the other two just haven’t had the time to put together any posts.

Nope, a first year at Chicago and a second year at Stonybrook. The former I did an REU with, the latter I did undergrad. I’m currently prodding the other two to start posting, including their own introductory posts. The one from Stonybrook should be starting by the end of next week. Here’s hoping!

Undergrad was at Rutgers, and the REU was on the polynomial knots. Got to work with Alan Durfee and Don O’Shea up at Mt. Holyoke, which was great. The polynomial knots are something I keep coming back to, I have this nagging feeling that there’s something really cool lurking around there, but that I don’t know enough to identify it, so at the least I try to make others aware of it.

About this weblog

This is mainly an expository blath, with occasional high-level excursions, humorous observations, rants, and musings. The main-line exposition should be accessible to the “Generally Interested Lay Audience”, as long as you trace the links back towards the basics. Check the sidebar for specific topics (under “Categories”).

I’m in the process of tweaking some aspects of the site to make it easier to refer back to older topics, so try to make the best of it for now.